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How to Fail at Social Media

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An interesting post on Why So Many Companies Suck at Social Media brings in some good insights and compares the now famous Old Spice youtube campaign with copycats like Cisco and Brigham Young University. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. Why is it that one company fails miserable while the other gets it right?

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Social Media's Next Victim?

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And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video. We all like stories of companies that mess up and in the process of trying to clean up their act end up messing up even more. United States License.

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The Rise of the Content Marketer « The Effective Marketer

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Twitter feeds need updating, Facebook pages need commenting, blog posts need editing, and YouTube videos have to be tagged. This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 9:00 am and is filed under Content Marketing , Marketing Automation , Marketing Planning , Marketing Strategy , Online Marketing , Social Media.

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The Fun Theory: How to Change Behavior

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Volkswagen launched what became quickly a viral campaign with emails being forwarded, youtube videos with over 1 million hits and comments from all corners of the web. They call it The Fun Theory (www.thefuntheory.com) and the goal is simple: using fun to change people’s behavior for the better. United States License.

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The Enemy of Productivity

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Stress vs. Productivity from www.hrmreport.com If your office is anything like mine, your colleagues send you Youtube videos, web links, and other stuff that although very entertaining doesn’t help you get your projects done on time. Have you ever tried simply not checking email ? United States License.

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How to Include Webinars in Your Content Plan

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If the myriad of webinar platforms out there with new entrants every year is not an indication that webinars are hot marketing tactic, then take a look at the following chart from MarketingSherpa : Webinars, together with virtual events were ranked top three marketing tactics to have their budgets increased in 2011.

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

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Peter Contardo and Shaun Pope, from Endavo Media , gave us a great primer on monetizing online video, clarifying that although easy to create (anyone with a webcam can upload to Youtube), need some thinking before you can actually make money with video. United States License.